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Do you know of Heckton ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Heckton. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Heckton.

Our sources for Heckton (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Heckton other than they indicate that Heckton would be found somewhere in Kosciusko County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1900 and closed  in 1901.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Heckton ...

We found one communities that share the name Heckton.

Within Indiana, the name Heckton is unique.

Beyond Indiana, there is another community also named Heckton in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Pennsylvania
      • Dauphin County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Heckton [Dauphin County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Heckton ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Heckton:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Map from 1908 (unknown title/publisher)

More Orphans in  Kosciusko County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Kosciusko County.

Angleton 
 Oneida
BrookwoodOran
 Orion
Camp Creek 
Cedar BeachPackertown
 Papakeechie Lake
Diamond Lake 
 Redmond Park
Eagle LakeReeds
 Ridinger Lake
HeptonRose Hill
Hoffman Lake 
 Selby
KosciuskoSellers Lake
 Shakespeare
MillwoodShoe Lake
  
North GalvestonYellow Creek Lake

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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